Thank you everyone! I know these took awhile to type up but I really do appreciate the feedback! Nanadoll, glad someone is growing Ascot! Definitely will have to give mine some more space than planned as I have it against the house where it stays quite warm. Also, Do you grow your Golden Celebration on a trellis or self standing? Seil, you are the reason I have ordered Angel Face. The photos of yours are just wonderful! You say yours is very hardy, thus can I expect little cane dieback? The space I have it planned for gets quite windy. Secondly, I will definitely need to find a new place for Memorial Day if it gets 6-8 feet so I am glad you mentioned it. Also, I was under the impression that Cherry Parfait and Fire & Ice are the same rose (HMF has the names linked I believe). Are the two you mention very different? I currently have Fire & Ice ordered and I see Regan lists them seperately. Odd. Thank you for the tip of Dublin Bay! I might plant a low one in front of it to cover the bottom. Kate, Regarding my list, I am sure I will be on here complaining after spring planting but the catalogs kept on coming! Thankfully I started digging holes in the fall and got through some, now just need to watch the dogs out in the yard with the snow cover so they don't accidently fall in! Thank you for the thorn tip on Elina, will need to stick her in the back so I can prune things in front without getting stuck. Also glad you mentioned WS2000 - I definitely did not have it planned for a 6ft wide spot! Doodles, I tried to stagger all of my deliveries (I have ordered from Palatine, Regan, DA, Chamblees, RVR, Heirloom, and RU) and pretty much don't plan on sleeping, eating, or bathing until I am done (although if this goes like my 2013 resolution, I am in trouble..). You and I both have a lot of work to do! Michael, I was way off for Tess. I assumed the HMF listing of 3'-8' would mean it would be closer to 3' in my zone so it definitely gets moved! Thank you! I was spacing 36" on average so most of these plans should work Lsst, when you say C.Marlowe has a delicate look does that mean you would suggest moving it toward the front of a bed to enjoy it versus further back? I had it spaced further back since the flower color is so "pow!" Thank you again everyone!

Sodaisycrazy, I had Blue satin Rose of Sharon when I live in Pennsylvania, I don't grow Rose of Sharon down here in the Southeast heat. I had a small yard when I lived up north, so when the seedlings started growing everywhere and I had to weed them out, I wasn't too happy and then I understood what other people would complain about. Try them, they are truly beautiful shrubs.

Too late about the planting. I put 2 seedlings in the ground in the spring. They seem to be doing fine,about 8 inches tall, though the leaves are starting to yellow a little. My friend took the other 4 and she planted them too, in the spring. Hopefully they will survive the winter. I really gon't have a place keep them inside over the winter. I have a disco/southern belle that I seeded outside a year ago. It didn't bloom the first year, but this year it has bloomed 22 beautiful pink flowers with a burgundy center and is full of seed pods. I have 8 hardy dinnerplate hibiscus that I WS this year. they only grew about 12-18 inches. Look quite healthy, but no blooms. Is that because they are perennials and won't bloom till next year? Oh yes, I have 2 in the front yard planted next to each other, 2 different types. One of them, the leaves look fine detailed lace, they have been so eaten by some kind of insect, the other one is fine. seems really strange.

Wow 24 to 80 days. To see how well the leaves stay green and healthy looking so far really surprises me. These Rose of Sharon must be very reliable propagators. But up to 80 days seems extreemly long; especially since I manually mist them at least 8 - 10 times a day. But If some can take 80 days to root well, then I should be very happy to see even the smallest 1/4 inch long root hair after only 2 weeks. george51l is the 1% IBA you use in a liquid form? I asked my nursery for some powdered rooting hormone, and they told me that they have better results using the Espoma Bio-tone starter which is in a liquid form which is supposed to be diluted to the ratio of 1 oz (2 tablespoons) in one gallon of water. They also told me that the stuff was good for newly planted trees which are suffering from our extreme summer heat conditions. I am going to try it on my Japanese Stewarta which is have a terrible time with the triple digit high temps we have been having this summer. for several a couple months the leaves have had browining around the edges, but after this last couple of weeks with such high temps the leaves have lost all their green and are now a redish brown, but still hanging onto the tree. I hope that the Bio-tone Starter Microbial plant food will feed the roots and keep the tree alive even though the leaves can no longer produce food for the roots. Do you think, that just if the tree does not pull through, I should cut off a branch and try to get it to root? Is that possible even though there currently are no green leaves?